I suspect that moving all utils (from all modules) into the kernel isn't an option :-)
thanks -Doug ______________________________________________________ STSM | Web Services Architect | IBM Software Group (919) 254-6905 | IBM T/L 444-6905 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] "David Illsley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/15/2007 03:49 AM Please respond to [email protected] To [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Re: accessing methods in a module Hi Doug, The example you picked actually happened... did you know that? The toOM/fromOM for EndpointReference are now in the kernel module so they are available to everyone. The reason I did't push for services to be able to access classes in mars is because it would still be a development time headache to persuade my favoured IDE to look inside a jar in a mar. David On 14/02/07, Davanum Srinivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doug, > > Come to think of it. i think If you place the mar file in WEB-INF/lib. > The module is loaded and the code in there is available to services. > Need to test it of course... > > -- dims > > On 2/14/07, Doug Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If I have a module that exposes some static utility methods - what is the > > way axis2 developers are supposed to model that? > > For example, let's say a popular module like WS-Addressing were to expose > > some utility method to convert a chunk of XML into an EPR. Clearly logic > > that falls within the WS-Addressing module's domain but useful for more than > > just the module itself. Applications (on the client and/or server) may need > > this kind of utility for their own purposes. From my understanding, the > > module classloading logic in axis2 is such that if I wanted to expose these > > static methods I would need to duplicate the appropriate jar files. In > > other words, I need to copy the jars from the .mar file out into the normal > > classloader path - e.g. WEB-INF/lib. If correct, this seems less then > > friendly since from the application's point of view, once the module is > > engaged they may wonder why those classes are not available to be used - and > > this would mean that module developers would need to package their code in > > such a way that jars could easily be extracted for reuse outside of the > > module w/o duplicating all jars (and they would need to communicate which > > jars need to be copied in their docs). > > > > thanks > > -Doug > > ______________________________________________________ > > STSM | Web Services Architect | IBM Software Group > > (919) 254-6905 | IBM T/L 444-6905 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > Davanum Srinivas :: http://wso2.org/ :: Oxygen for Web Services Developers > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- David Illsley - IBM Web Services Development --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
